Don't Look Back

Chapter One

Master Kin and I trudged though the mountain landscape with Commander Key and his clones behind us. We have been scouting the moon Sinn for days trying to locate the enemy base with no luck. Master Kin stops and turns. She looks like she aged 50 years as she says, "Stop and take a break,  we've searched long enough for today, set up camp."

I set up my tent and climb in. I lay down, close my eyes faster than a star cruiser in hyperspace.

   I wake up to a scream that chills my bones. I rush out my tent, lightsaber activated to find Commander Key and his clones gunning down Master Kin.

   "No!" I scream.

I rush forward, lightsaber a blaze as I cut through clones. Commander Key takes aim at me and fires. I deflect the laser back at him which catches him in the chest. I finish off the rest of the clones and rush to my master's side.

   "Master,master! Are you okay?" I ask frantically.

"I'm not going to make it, go on without me." She says weakly.

"No master, how will I go on without you? I'll find something to help," I say as I search through my utility belt.

"No," she says,"go now Jaylen, and don't look back."

Then the light leaves her eyes. I fall to my knees and cry as I hold her hand. Finally I get up and wipe my eyes.

"Okay Master Kin, I promise not to look back. I promise I will never look back."

   I take her lightsaber off her belt and clip on next to mine. I pull the hood of my Jedi robe up and walk off to find the nearest space port. I don't turn around one last time because I will never, never look back.

I slip past the clones guarding the spaceport and run to where I hid my Delta-7B starfighter. I take off in the starfighter and immediately a holo massage from Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.

"I'm afraid to say that the Jedi order has fallen. The Sith have taken over the Republic and have formed the Galactic Empire. This is a warning to all Jedi. Do not return to the temple. Good luck and trust in the force."

I set the the computer to the homing becon coming form Senator Organa's star cruiser and take off.

   Hyperspace leaves me time to think about what has happened. As stars streak pass me I go the events from today. My clones turn against me, my master died, the Jedi have fallen, the Sith rule the galaxy, and I'm going to Senator Organa' s ship which for all I know is a trap.